We use ABBYY FlexiCapture to recognize pictures or PDF files and transfer them to Word or Excel.
Assistant Manager at Misumi
Is easy to use and is stable
Pros and Cons
- "It's easy to use."
- "I chose ABBYY because it had more solutions for intelligence automation, and it looked like I could combine it with other automation solutions."
- "The integration with UiPath is not good. I would like to see more documentation and guides to help gain more in-depth knowledge of how to use ABBYY FlexiCapture."
- "The integration with UiPath is not good."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It's easy to use.
What needs improvement?
The integration with UiPath is not good.
I would like to see more documentation and guides to help gain more in-depth knowledge of how to use ABBYY FlexiCapture.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with this solution for about three or four months.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have had no issues with stability so far.
What other advice do I have?
I chose ABBYY because it had more solutions for intelligence automation, and it looked like I could combine it with other automation solutions. We currently have 20 to 30 users.
I recommend ABBYY FlexiCapture, and on a scale from one to ten with ten being the best, I would rate it at eight.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Document workflow program capable of extracting and identifying specific fields and special characters
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to extract content from documents. It is able to identify specific fields and special characters."
- "This solution could be improved by offering better integration with other platforms."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution for invoice processing.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to extract content from documents. It is able to identify specific fields and special characters. We are able to train the tool to identify certain sets of fields based on specific definitions. This solution is also user-friendly.
What needs improvement?
This solution could be improved by offering better integration with other platforms. They have released the connectors for all other RPA tools such as Blue Prism UiPath, but this integration is quite challenging to use. It's not very straightforward or easy to understand for a non-technical person. The integration should be configured in such a way that anyone can understand it and use it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for six to eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
ABBYY is a user-friendly and stable product. ABBYY is more flexible and stable compared to a solution like Kofax.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is definitely a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support team are knowledgeable and responsive. Their response depends on the license that you hold with them. Their licenses come with predefined response and SLA times. If you are a golden license holder, you will receive a response within three to four hours.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
There are different sets of initial configurations and this depends on the use case. We have standalone and multi-server setups. Being a consultant, I configured ABBYY FlexiCapture myself. I could easily go through their documentation and figure out what needed to be done and how it needed to be done. The documentation is user-friendly.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
They have a trial license that is limited to a certain number of pages. The paid license varies from six months to one year depending on the number of documents that need to be processed. We are a consulting firm and our license model depends on customer requirements.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
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Senior Manager at Deloitte Canada
Great for document classification and information extraction with a quick deployment
Pros and Cons
- "Allows us to run through documents and extract information."
- "ABBYY Vantage is a good tool."
- "The overall integration could be better. For example, the modelling, classification and handwritten information are not great."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for this solution is invoice processing. We have many different invoices on different maps so we use it as a tool to classify those documents and get the information that we enter into the SAP systems.
What is most valuable?
ABBYY Vantage is easy to use and allows us to run through documents and extract information.
What needs improvement?
The overall integration could be better. For example, the modelling, classification and handwritten information are not great. From my perspective, Hyperscience does the handwritten processes a lot better than ABBYY Vantage. Additionally, the overall end-to-end processes experience can also be improved in terms of how information is fed to ABBYY. By having the overall process flow built with ABBYY Vantage, it can hold up as an independent tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for approximately one year. We deploy this solution on cloud and are currently using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable. We can add new users without any issues. However, we do not need to add users often because the primary point is to reduce the number of users. Additionally, we are consultants, so we build and deploy solutions for our clients. Currently, we have five people involved in this process who are using and leveraging this product.
How are customer service and support?
We have not had to contact customer service and support yet.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward, and deployment was very quick as we used the ABBYY cloud setup that was provided. We didn't have to separate the installation and setup process. It was primarily structured on passing on documents and getting the information back.
What was our ROI?
The ROI is visible when there is enough volume of documents available. For example, if there are two documents a week, there would not be a good ROI, but if we have many invoices from large companies, there will be a high ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I cannot give a specific figure for pricing because it is unique to each client. We negotiate at different times for different clients, depending on the size of their organization. However, I believe the price is a bundled package.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
ABBYY Vantage is a good tool. In this space that we work in, Hyperscience and ABBYY Vantage are two essential tools that we work with. Others include Bioscript and many more, but these two are the primary tools because of their maturity and capability. Therefore, these are our tools of choice.
What other advice do I have?
I rate this solution an eight out of ten. The solution is good and stable, but its overall integration could be improved. Our advice to customers will be to understand their business cases because it is attached to document processing, so there is a bundled cost with this product. It is necessary to understand the volumes and the documents being worked with. Understanding the volume and quality of documents that are being processed is necessary to ensure success.
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Senior Manager at Wipro Limited
Responsive technical support, reliable, and performs well
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to extract and insert data, then structuralize it into the actionable format, would be the most valuable."
- "The initial setup was relatively complex. The people who install it must be knowledgeable about what they are doing."
- "I would have liked to see them make it easier for business users to implement themselves."
What is most valuable?
It would be during the data extraction process. The ability to extract and insert data, then structuralize it into the actionable format, would be the most valuable.
What needs improvement?
I would have liked to see them make it easier for business users to implement themselves. This is what they have done with Vantage, which is essentially a low code/no code, slightly enhanced version of FlexiCapture that is already available.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been involved with ABBYY FlexiCapture off and on for approximately one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
ABBYY FlexiCapture is a stable product. The stability is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of ABBYY FlexiCapture is good.
This solution is used on a daily basis throughout the organization.
My company has approximately 230,000 employees worldwide.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good. They solve problems relatively quickly.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I am familiar with IBM Datacap.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was relatively complex. The people who install it must be knowledgeable about what they are doing.
It took some time to get everything up and running properly.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment was completed in-house.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment, but I'm not sure how much.
It would be far too difficult. Because we obviously deliver these types of solutions not only in-house but also for a large number of other companies. There's plenty of ROI that we have managed to deliver for our customers, in particular, but I can't give you figures.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I don't recall the pricing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In terms of intelligent document processing, the company uses a variety of platforms, including IBM Datacap and ABBYYFlexiCapture, among others. We were constantly reviewing market products, and we were also doing things like Hyperscience. At the moment, I'm working on a review for Vantage, which is ABBYY's other recently released product, rather than FlexiCapture.
What other advice do I have?
We are partners with ABBYY.
If you are going to implement it, I would recommend a combination of engaging with a delivery partner to accelerate your initial setup and scalability and then building your own internal capability, which requires accredited users, in parallel.
Because FlexiCapture requires a significant amount of domain knowledge or technical capability to implement. I am not sure if this is outside the scope of your research, but if a company is looking to implement ABBYY products in general and does not want to require a significant increase in internal capabilities, ABBYY Vantage may be a better option.
I would rate ABBYY FlexiCapture an eight out of ten.
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Managing Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Beneficial Arabic OCR, useful personalized templates, and helpful support
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of ABBYY FlexiCapture is the ability to create your own template on the fly. You can train and classify, you can work with those different templates without the need to do special programming for it or with minimum programming. Additionally, the solution is supporting the Arabic OCR, both of these combined features are the most important for us in the Egyptian market."
- "The most valuable feature of ABBYY FlexiCapture is the ability to create your own template on the fly."
- "ABBYY FlexiCapture could improve the performance. We are looking for better performance because it can be a lengthy capture process and the accuracy needs to be enhanced when it comes to Arabic."
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of ABBYY FlexiCapture is the ability to create your own template on the fly. You can train and classify, you can work with those different templates without the need to do special programming for it or with minimum programming. Additionally, the solution is supporting the Arabic OCR, both of these combined features are the most important for us in the Egyptian market.
What needs improvement?
ABBYY FlexiCapture could improve the performance. We are looking for better performance because it can be a lengthy capture process and the accuracy needs to be enhanced when it comes to Arabic.
In the next upgrade, ABBYY FlexiCapture could add invoices for the Arabic or for the Middle East because it's based on European or American standards mainly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using ABBYY FlexiCapture for approximately four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
ABBYY FlexiCapture is stable, we did not find any problems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In our usage, ABBYY FlexiCapture has been scalable enough. We had a cluster-based operation.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the support form ABBYY FlexiCapture a four out of five.
The support could be more responsive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used OpenText previously and overall the solution might work better, but for our use case, ABBYY FlexiCapture has all the features we need that are important, such as Arabic OCR, and is priced well.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of ABBYY FlexiCapture is easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of ABBYY FlexiCapture is better than some competitors, such as OpenText.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend this solution to others.
I rate ABBYY FlexiCapture an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Senior Consultant at Inovoo GmbH
Very scalable and easy to set up but has a slow response for technical support
Pros and Cons
- "We have found the solution to be stable so far."
- "The form extractions engine and the FlexiCapture designer are really useful."
- "The solution needs more web or cloud-based development."
- "The on-premise web version doesn't seem to be intuitive or easy to use or install."
What is our primary use case?
The solution is used mostly for form extraction, fixed form extraction, text forms, data extraction, OCR, et cetera. We use it for digital document processing.
How has it helped my organization?
We run software that does basically business process automation. It's given us a form extraction utility to add. We're utilizing the ATR in the FlexiCapture engine, and in that way, we can use the FlexiCapture engine to process forms. Any forms that contain data, we can extract.
Without that, we would have to use pattern extraction, regular expressions, and things like that. This is a forms processing engine, which allows us to be able to set anchors and OCR values, et cetera.
What is most valuable?
The form extractions engine and the FlexiCapture designer are really useful.
The solution is easy to set up.
We have found the solution to be stable so far.
The product is extremely scalable.
What needs improvement?
The UI is okay, however, I remember the scanning and the way that you actually get documents into the system. The FlexiCapture, what they call a process developer, could use some work.
The solution needs more web or cloud-based development. Cloud-based FlexiCapture development would be great.
The on-premise web version doesn't seem to be intuitive or easy to use or install. It's not user-friendly.
Technical support is slow to respond.
The pricing is a bit high and we are looking into other options.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for three years now. I've used it for a while.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is good. It's a reliable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution scales very, very well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
We have about ten users on the solution right now. They are mostly developers and consultants.
How are customer service and technical support?
Technical support could be better. once you create a ticket, it takes some time for them to respond, from a partner perspective. You send a ticket to an email address. There's no phone number. You can send it to support@abbyy.com and you have to wait.
They do have a fairly thorough knowledge base. There are also available videos on YouTube. However, if you're having complex problems, it can take sometimes days for them to respond. If you're running a professional system, that's not going to cut it.
I don't know if they have level levels of support, and we have maybe just a really poor version of the support system. I can imagine that, if you pay for a really high level of support, then, of course, they're available. That said, from our perspective, being a partner developer, we've had problems with the support, for sure. If you pay for Professional Services hours, it would be my assumption that they would respond right away, however.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward and easy. It was not too complex or overly difficult.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Licensing is paid on a yearly basis. I don't know the exact price of everything, however, I do know that it is expensive from the perspective of our management team. We've also been looking for other solutions.
What other advice do I have?
We are a partner with ABBYY.
I'm using version 12. I believe it is the latest version. I haven't seen any updates as of recently. There could be a version 14 out, however, I'm not sure. We're using the desktop version.
I would advise those considering the solution to watch the YouTube lessons and pay for Professional Services training and assistance.
At this point, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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IT Solution Manager DMS & Low-Code at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Top feature is OCR capability; extremely reliable and time-saving
Pros and Cons
- "Time-saving with increased levels of accuracy."
- "Screening documents is a time-consuming activity, which has no real added value by itself so the solution saves the company a lot of time."
- "Could be simplified, particularly the UI."
- "The main thing they need to work on is simplification of the solution, particularly use of the search tool."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is for processing documents and extracting data from them - using the OCR capabilities. Documents include invoices, purchase orders, things like that. I'm an IT solution manager and we are customers of ABBYY.
How has it helped my organization?
We've had two main benefits from ABBYY. Screening documents is a time-consuming activity, which has no real added value by itself so the solution saves the company a lot of time. The second benefit relates to the energy involved in employees going through documents. It's tiring work and mistakes creep in. We now have an increased level of accuracy by using the solution.
What is most valuable?
Clearly the OCR capability of ABBYY is the top feature in our context. We can rely on the ABBYY knowledge and experience to extract data and recognize texts in different situations and especially in different languages, particularly English and Chinese.
What needs improvement?
The main thing they need to work on is simplification of the solution, particularly use of the search tool. Configuring is quite complex and it's not very user friendly, particularly the user interface if you're trying to figure it out by yourself and create some configurations for processing documents. I know they are working on it. We used the new ideas on page projects they recently released and that has been great for enabling non-IT proficient users to start configuring and using it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of the solution is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's quite easy to scale. We currently have around 10 users, mainly IT professionals but also other users. I'm responsible for managing and maintaining the solution with a support team, and we generally carry out an annual upgrade, rather than an upgrade whenever ABBYY releases a new version. We use it every day and hope to increase usage as it would help more and more people at the company.
How are customer service and technical support?
The technical support was good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was quite simple, perhaps slightly more complicated because it's on premise so it includes taking care of the architecture. I managed the project and we built a platform in a few months. A consultant worked with me and another solution architect during the initial period. The total setup took between two to three months.
What was our ROI?
We haven't measured ROI but definitely as mentioned, there are many time-saving benefits.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are on-prem so we're just paying the license fee. They have a clear pricing model. You pay extra for the training content.
What other advice do I have?
The main difficulty, as I mentioned, is to get people started on it if they're not specifically trained on ABBYY or not an IT professional. It's initially quite difficult and more so now that the learning material is not freely accessible online. Other than that, it's just a matter of following the documentation and using it.
I rate the solution nine out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Senior RPA Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Gives control over what goes through the system, lessens the errors, and saves time to allow the teams to focus on bigger picture things
Pros and Cons
- "Verification station is a really good feature. It allows part-owners to be able to take a look at what comes out of the tool after a document, such as an invoice, is run through ABBYY. It also allows them to update it if there are any mistakes. So, it kind of gives them a little more control over what goes through the system and lessens the errors."
- "We recommend it over any other OCR solution on the market."
- "They say that they have invoice training or document training where if you put in a certain number of documents of the same type and you fix it once, twice, or a few times, it'll automatically be able to read the same document perfectly without you having to create a layout for it to follow. That has never worked properly for any project, so I just stopped recommending it completely. We spent time trying to test and getting a bunch of invoices to test it with, and in the end, it just didn't do what it needed to. If they fix that or if they can improve on that, that would be great. It will save a lot of time for a lot of people, and it will allow people with less experience with ABBYY to be able to use it."
What is our primary use case?
Most of the use cases were invoice-related for sectors such as supply chain and finance. Sometimes, they were a little bit related to HR and payroll. We also had use cases for passports and IDs and documents related to HR and onboarding.
I've also worked on a larger scale project for importing and exporting in Dubai. It had invoices, country of origin statements, and everything else that comes through with an import check event.
It was on-premise on all the projects I've worked on. I've never worked on it with the cloud. We would connect it to an RPA tool, such as UiPath or Automation Anywhere. So, it was a part of a larger solution.
How has it helped my organization?
Usually, it does the reading task for a document, such as an invoice, and that is a very mundane task for an employee when they have other stuff to do. It pretty much takes that off their plate. It gives them time to focus on bigger picture things or even look at the process as a whole.
It lessens the errors that can happen. An employee can be tired and read a number wrong, but if it is a computer-generated invoice, it is going to be of the best quality. If it is computer-generated, it will come out with zero error every time, and it will do it a lot faster than a person. It will extract the information and continue doing whatever you need to.
What is most valuable?
Verification station is a really good feature. It allows part-owners to be able to take a look at what comes out of the tool after a document, such as an invoice, is run through ABBYY. It also allows them to update it if there are any mistakes. So, it kind of gives them a little more control over what goes through the system and lessens the errors.
What needs improvement?
They say that they have invoice training or document training where if you put in a certain number of documents of the same type and you fix it once, twice, or a few times, it'll automatically be able to read the same document perfectly without you having to create a layout for it to follow. That has never worked properly for any project, so I just stopped recommending it completely. We spent time trying to test and getting a bunch of invoices to test it with, and in the end, it just didn't do what it needed to. If they fix that or if they can improve on that, that would be great. It will save a lot of time for a lot of people, and it will allow people with less experience with ABBYY to be able to use it.
The way FlexiLayout Studio and Project Station read a document, such as an invoice, is a little bit different. So, if you set it up in FlexiLayout Studio and create a template, it will read it just fine, but when you import it into Project Studio, sometimes, it will not read it the same way. The way both of them read is a little bit different. So, you have to go back, and you have to change it again, and it is trial and error until you get it right.
Its price should be a little lower. It is a lot higher than the competition.
For how long have I used the solution?
The last project I worked on was in February of this year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is pretty stable. If I remember correctly, it has only crashed once, and I don't think it was a system issue. It was just some weird, bizarre glitch that happened at the time. Once the projects were live and running on the client system, we've never had any issues that I can think of.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Its scalability is good, but it also depends on how you're working on a project from the beginning. I like to put everything together, and I usually do think of it in a way that if we were going to add invoices in the future, it won't be a hassle. It is pretty scalable. I can have many different invoices on the same project. I can have a project going on the client-side for years and then just add to it if needed.
Usually, we have some type of business analyst whose main role is doing something that we call an OCR study. The business analyst would be reading the invoices and just telling us what the client wants to extract from them. On their end, they also make sure that the quality of the invoices is good for ABBYY. It can't be something that is written over and damaged or put in someone's pocket for a day and then in the scanner. It won't give us perfect results.
There would also be a developer who would take a look at the OCR study fed by the analyst and then think of how to develop each template. If you don't understand how you're going to design the whole project, you might need someone. Because we're putting it into another automation tool as well, after we've sort of developed everything, depending on the scale of the project, we may have somebody dedicated to just testing the submission before sending it over to the client.
We have plans to use it, and of course, it is a good product, but we work with what the client wants. So, if a client doesn't want it, then they're not going to be using it. It is not like a solution for every case in my line of work. It depends on if the client actually has a bunch of invoices or a bunch of documents that they need to read quickly. If that's the case, then we definitely recommend it every time. We recommend it over any other OCR solution on the market. ABBYY in itself isn't a perfect tool, but ABBYY is pretty good. It is not the best on the market at the moment.
How are customer service and technical support?
I've been in contact with several people from ABBYY and their support staff. They're very helpful.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were using the default OCR tool that came with the UiPath software. It is integrated with Google OCR and Microsoft OCR, which are okay for smaller, simpler documents, but they're not going to give you the control that you can have with ABBYY. The engine itself isn't as good.
ABBYY is definitely more mature. It's all-around better. If I pass through an invoice PDF, the percentage of getting everything right with ABBYY is higher than it is with the others. It is definitely a lot more expensive, but I can tailor what I need to each document, and I have multi-lingual support. I can pretty much just get behind what ABBYY is trying to read and make sure it is reading everything correctly, whereas, with Google OCR or Microsoft OCR, I just worked with whatever came out, and I had no control over it.
How was the initial setup?
It depends. There are two types of installations. There is the standalone installation, and there is the server installation. The standalone one is very simple. It is just a normal install. You just push the license through the command prompt, and that's pretty much it. The other one is just going to take a little while longer depending on how you're going to deploy the solution for FlexiCapture on the system. From my experience, if someone is going to install it for the first time, they might need just a bit of help, but it is not that complex.
The duration depends on the solution. It depends on what a customer wants and how many invoices you're going to be preparing in ABBYY, but usually, we say that a good rule of thumb is about one to two hours for a normal invoice. If it has a complex table, then it may take three to four hours for an invoice. So, the time taken would depend on what the client actually wants. If we have five invoices for which the customer wants to use ABBYY, they can be created in a day or two days. We'll give half a day for installation, which also depends on how many servers we're going to be using. We'll give like another half a day for testing and pushing the project. So, maybe two days for five invoices is fair.
In terms of the implementation strategy, first, I would pretty much gather all the invoices the customer needs, and usually, if they are in the same sector and in the same business, they'll be very similar. If we have 50 invoices, I would rather waste an hour or two figuring out the similar invoices and then creating just 10 templates instead of 50. After that, I'd start with identifying the means of the values that I want to extract and figure those out in all of those 50 invoices, especially the ones that are going to be in the same template. Then, I'd get to work on those templates. Once I finish those, I'd push them to the project so that I can test them there, and if everything is working fine in the project, then I'd just give the solution to the customer.
What was our ROI?
We have definitely seen an ROI. Most of the ROI is related to time because it'll take a while for a human to go through a full process. If we assume that we have a process that takes a human or an employee an hour, that would be eight hours in a day. OCR would really cut that time by a lot. I'm also talking about adding automation to it, so I'm pretty much a little biased here. We can cut that time down by a lot, and once we do that, then we just have the whole process automated. It is not being done by an employee anymore, so that employee is free to do something else. So, you're saving time, money, and brainpower.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Its price should be a little lower. It is a lot higher than the competition, and if they just break the gap a little, then more people might jump onto their product. Their price is definitely a deterrent in the few cases that I remember.
They have monthly and yearly options, and if you want, they also have per project and per page options. We partnered with them for a few projects, and they provided us with a trial license that we use on our end for using the system, employing it, and developing the solution. On the client's end, they will charge them for the license because that's ongoing. They also get support and everything else.
They do charge extra for different types of installation. They have the standalone, which is pretty straightforward and a lot cheaper than the server installation. Server installation gives you a lot more, and it gives you control over the environment. They have a web management studio for the whole thing. You can create users and give people different permissions and track the progress of everything, so that's going to be a lot more expensive. I remember that one client was complaining about having to pay extra for having the Arabic language added to the system. I think they made all the languages free after that, but I'm not 100% sure.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise first looking at what you're trying to extract from the documents that you have. If they are simple enough and are being extracted properly through a cheaper or a free OCR tool, then just use that. It is not going to be worth the price. If you have lots of invoices and some of them get very complex, and you'd rather have the control over making sure everything is fine, and you have no room for error, then it would be better to invest in ABBYY.
The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that when creating templates with different documents, make sure that you're using different identifiers for those documents. That's because, in the beginning, you might think that it would automatically know the difference between, let's say, an Amazon invoice and a Walmart invoice, but it won't unless you tell it. So, you have to make sure that those files are unique. You also have to make sure that what you've created fits perfectly for that invoice. If you leave a little bit of leeway, it is possible that something else will be picked up that you don't want, and then it will just ruin the rest of the process. It is no fault of the OCR. You just didn't restrict it properly.
I would rate ABBYY FlexiCapture an eight out of 10. It is not perfect, but it is the best I've used.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
IT Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Solid with good support, saves times, and brings more employee satisfaction
Pros and Cons
- "The whole idea of designing your own templates is pretty much the bread and butter of the product, but that's really the best part because you can design flexible templates."
- "Other than that, clients have always been extremely happy with this solution."
- "There is always room for improvement in any product. Some of the configurations for the machine learning models for invoice reading are fairly complicated. There is so much customization that is possible with that sort of thing, so it makes sense that there are a lot of options, but some of the more important ones can be a little better streamlined or more upfront. Currently, machine learning models are a little bit difficult to configure satisfactorily."
- "Currently, machine learning models are a little bit difficult to configure satisfactorily."
What is our primary use case?
I specialize in RPA. So, I started learning FlexiCapture to include it in the automation process. Instead of users having to manually enter information into a database or something like that, they can just load their digital documents to a certain location for ABBYY to decipher them, and then the bot and the automation could just continue along with that.
For one of the projects, it was deployed on a public cloud. For the other project, it was on-premise.
What is most valuable?
The whole idea of designing your own templates is pretty much the bread and butter of the product, but that's really the best part because you can design flexible templates.
There is also the AI part. They have their machine learning models that are pre-setup for invoices and things like that, which is also very handy. It is a really good feature.
What needs improvement?
There is always room for improvement in any product. Some of the configurations for the machine learning models for invoice reading are fairly complicated. There is so much customization that is possible with that sort of thing, so it makes sense that there are a lot of options, but some of the more important ones can be a little better streamlined or more upfront. Currently, machine learning models are a little bit difficult to configure satisfactorily.
There are a lot of solutions for different things, and they are all kind of headed in the same direction where they all do everything. I know that ABBYY wants to try and do a little more RPA. Solutions like UiPath, for example, want to eat ABBYY's lunch too. They all are trying to make an all-in-one solution for all possible automation needs. In that sense, ABBYY as a standalone product could use some more automation features. They are not there yet.
Its integrations with strictly RPA products, such as UiPath, Blue Prism, and other solutions, work when they work, but when they don't, it is a kind of a pain. Those integrations could use a little bit more support.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have run into issues with the connectors that they developed for UiPath. I had one issue with that. It didn't want to do what we wanted. We had to change how it worked a little bit as far as the automation goes. It wasn't a huge issue, but it would have been much more convenient if had worked the way it was designed to. Otherwise, in terms of the stability of the project itself, I've never seen it crash.
Its performance is usually dependent on the hardware it is installed upon. That's not really an issue with the software itself. Its accuracy is good. It is probably one of the better optical character recognition packages that I've seen, but it still is not perfect because none of them are. It is the nature of the software, but it is pretty good. As long as the clients can provide reasonably readable documents, then it has got no problems as far as I'm concerned.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is actually relatively simple to increase the scale of the infrastructure that you install. When I was dealing with it, the licensing structure that they had was relatively affordable as compared to other solutions. The bigger the scale, the more affordable it is. These things change all the time, so I don't know if it is still current.
The projects I've been on were proof of concept and then we just rolled them into production on the first stage. It was pretty small scale, but they had plans to go large scale. One of the projects actually from my end was still just the small-scale stuff, but other departments in the company had already procured a rather large-scale ABBYY license, and it was in production. I had nothing to do with that section, but the company as a whole had a pretty large infrastructure for ABBYY itself. They were dealing with millions of pages per month or so.
For proof of concept, there were probably about four or five test users. For the second one that I worked on, it was planned to go to production from the get-go. It started out on small scale again with probably four or five users. So far, the scale is 20.
How are customer service and technical support?
I have used tech support, and they've been extremely helpful. There was a part of the solution I couldn't figure out myself. So, I enlisted their help, and they walked me through how to do what I needed to do. They set up a time within the next day or so, and they spent an hour with me. We figured it all out, and it was good. There is always room for improvement. Other instances haven't been as perfect as that, but that was certainly a shining example.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
When we did the first project, which was just the proof of concept that I was part of, they had older software from 20 years ago. There wasn't support for it anymore or something like that. They were looking for something that could handle a larger scale. So, they switched. We suggested them ABBYY, and that's where they went.
How was the initial setup?
For the clients for whom I worked with ABBYY, we would arrange for them to provide an environment. We would go into the environment and install ABBYY servers. If required, we'd also walk them through installing the clients on their machines, but generally, what we've been doing so far has been the support to an RPA project. They didn't really need to use ABBYY clients. It has all been pretty much backend stuff. We would install the infrastructure, set up the automation and its interactions with ABBYY, and then run tests in UAT. Once everything is ready to go, we do the final production deployment. After that, we have a week or two of maintenance before it gets off to a specialized maintenance team.
It takes about a week for the installation, but the development planning usually takes months or longer. At the time, I was pretty much doing it myself with support from a business analyst. The deployment of the infrastructure, the development of the automation and the ABBYY components, and then running the testing was usually just a one-man job with support from a couple of other people, such as a project manager.
Once we have developed the solution, there is a testing period where we just put it in their hands, and they throw all sorts of scenarios at it. We fix the bugs as it goes along. ABBYY does have a learning function where it can pick up on these changes when things arise, as long as the users are able and familiar with how to train it, which we show them how to do. So, maintainability is pretty good as far as I'm concerned. If there is something completely wrong and it is not reading anything right, then we have to go in and edit the templates, etc. Generally, if we set it up right and they learn how to teach it right, it is pretty stable.
What was our ROI?
The client got an ROI in reducing the number of hours that the users have to spend on a given task. Again, my solutions are not purely ABBYY, so it is hard to say how much of the benefit the ABBYY section alone was. Usually, ABBYY is involved because the users are spending a lot of time entering the information they see on a piece of paper into the system, whereas ABBYY can read it all in seconds. So, there is certainly great time savings. It then becomes a matter of comparing the cost of installation and the cost of developing the solution, licensing, and everything else with the costs and the time of those users. Even if it is pretty close to equal, they usually go for it because it is a much better environment for the users to work in and is less tedium. So, they have more employee satisfaction.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is more on the reasonable side as compared to the competition that I am aware of. I'm not an expert on pricing schemes for all sorts of things, but when we offer them a solution, we like to say we're agnostic. So, we offer more than one solution when possible. Amongst the ones that we've offered, ABBYY usually is the more reasonable solution on a big scale. On a small scale, they're all pretty similar.
As far as I understand, you pay a license for a number of pages, and that's pretty much it. It has just the rate per page, and it decreases as you scale.
What other advice do I have?
I've never done a strictly ABBYY solution. My solutions have all been ABBYY plus UiPath or something like that. After a solution has been deployed, there have always been bug fixes. Other than that, clients have always been extremely happy with this solution. They're excited they have to do less work.
If you have the right use case, it is definitely worth it. As a solution, I would rate ABBYY a nine out of 10. It is a solid solution, and support is there. It is good.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Sr. RPA Applications Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Saves a lot of time and is suitable for processing a high number of documents and doing away with manual processes
Pros and Cons
- "We are able to extract details from a PDF and put them into a CSV. It is able to extract the details that we are looking for. We have the Machine Learning feature to extract the data with respect to the position of the field."
- "By using FlexiCapture's integration with UiPath, we are able to automate a lot of complex processes and save time."
- "Occasionally, we found the Machine Learning feature to be not working as per our expectations. Sometimes, it also failed to extract details from a PDF. It would be great if training batches work with 100% accuracy. I don't see any other major concerns with ABBYY FlexiCapture."
- "Occasionally, we found the Machine Learning feature to be not working as per our expectations."
What is our primary use case?
We use ABBYY FlexiCapture to extract data from invoices and purchase orders.
How has it helped my organization?
It is saving a lot of time, especially for the users who are doing the same tasks on a regular basis. Previously, they were manually copy-pasting from the PDF files to the legacy systems. By using FlexiCapture's integration with UiPath, we are able to automate a lot of complex processes and save time.
What is most valuable?
We are able to extract details from a PDF and put them into a CSV. It is able to extract the details that we are looking for. We have the Machine Learning feature to extract the data with respect to the position of the field.
What needs improvement?
Most of the features are already included in ABBYY FlexiCapture. It is 95% good. It only needs an improvement of 5%.
Occasionally, we found the Machine Learning feature to be not working as per our expectations. Sometimes, it also failed to extract details from a PDF. It would be great if training batches work with 100% accuracy. I don't see any other major concerns with ABBYY FlexiCapture.
In the future release, in the admin console, they can include information about the number of pages that we have consumed and the number of pages that are remaining. Currently, we are not able to see how many pages we have consumed. We haven't received any feedback from ABBYY on how many pages we've consumed for each template or the whole process. If they can include that in the future release, it would be great because we don't know how many pages we may require on a yearly basis.
It is expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for about two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven't seen many crashing issues so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scaling process is of medium complexity. My company is a sales-based company, and we get millions of purchase orders from different vendors. So, we use ABBYY FlexiCapture a lot. We have plans to increase its usage in different departments.
How are customer service and technical support?
Once in a while, when we have any questions, we reach out to ABBYY. They were okay, and they were able to help me.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We haven't used any other tools. We started with ABBYY FlexiCapture.
How was the initial setup?
Its deployment process is of medium complexity. Currently, only one person from the India team or the Austria team is deploying the packages for ABBYY FlexiCapture. I have been deploying UiPath packages for a very long time, and the process for ABBYY FlexiCapture is a little bit different as compared to UiPath. ABBYY FlexiCapture is a little bit more complex than UiPath.
It takes 15 to 20 minutes for one template.
What was our ROI?
We have definitely seen an ROI. It might increase in the future.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is expensive as compared to UiPath. We pay for the licensing and the page count.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We didn't explore any other OCR tools as of now. We are good with ABBYY FlexiCapture, and I don't think we are going to explore any other tools in the future.
What other advice do I have?
I would strongly recommend using ABBYY FlexiCapture if you have a high number of invoices, purchase orders, or any manual checks, and you want to extract details.
I would rate ABBYY FlexiCapture a nine out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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